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throughout is of a good proHfic quahtj, and nearly 

 all under tillage, producing grain of all sorts far 

 beyond its own consumption : there are a few 

 meadows and pasture grounds. The conces- 

 sions are separated into two divisions, distin- 

 guished as the Cote du Cap a la Branche, and 

 Cote de la Baleine ; these are very little watered 

 by streams of any description. A small quan- 

 tity of wood of very inferior kinds still remains 

 on the high ground, about the middle of the 

 island. There is one parish, a church, and a 

 parsonage-house ; the inhabitants are reckoned 

 between two and three hundred persons, living 

 in neat well-built houses on each side of a road 

 that makes the complete tour of the island. 

 The battures and shoals surrounding it are very 

 productive fishing-banks; the little bays are 

 the rendezvous of numerous small craft, em- 

 ployed in transporting to Quebec the surplus 

 produce of the island, and the opposite seig- 

 niories. • 



Murray Bay, or Malbay (the seigniory 

 of), in the county of Northumberland, is one 

 of the only three grants en fief et seigneurie, 

 that have been made by the British govern- 

 ment; it extends from the seigniory of Eboule- 

 mens along the river St. Lawrence, as far as 

 Malbay, a distance of four leagues by three 

 leagues in depth; was granted April 27th, 



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